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Big House on Wightman at Top of Mattison was Edwardian Nursing Home

And they partied. This from 1900: This house:

Started by Hugh

0 Mar 22, 2019

The Problem with Harringay Bridge

It seems like Harringay Bridge was born as a problem. Now it's graffiti. Just twenty years after it was constructed, it was already too low…

Started by Hugh

1 Mar 22, 2019
Reply by Richard Woods

When Gray's family cleared out the attic......

Attached is a transcript of one of the sale adverts placed by Gray's executors for various bits and bobs. (If you'd like to read from the o…

Started by Hugh

1 Mar 21, 2019
Reply by JoeW

Harringay Edwardian Buy Local Campaign

Published in 1901:

Started by Hugh

3 Mar 14, 2019
Reply by Liz

Harringay House mapped (almost) exactly on modern satellite pic

Liz asked me the other day about the exact position of Harringay House. I pretty much knew it, but wasn't sure exactly. So I took the 1883…

Started by Hugh

7 Mar 10, 2019
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Guys Calculating Machines, Wood Green

Based at the Truro Works in Truro Road, Wood Green, Guy's Calculating Machines Ltd was set up by Frank Guy. The company patented their fi…

Started by Hugh

0 Nov 20, 2018

Old Crouch End School

Crouch End School shown on the 1869 Ordnance Survey Map. By 1869 its address was Park Road, but from 1500 (or perhaps earlier) until 1856,…

Started by Hugh

0 Sep 12, 2018

Portuguese High Society In Late Georgian Woodberry Down

Cintra Cottage photographed in 1865 Cintra Cottage was one of the first dwellings built on Woodberry Down.  I'm not certain exactly where…

Started by Hugh

11 Aug 14, 2018
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Was Green Lanes a Setting for the Pickwick Papers?

Writing in The Echo on January 1 1901, Victorian journalist and theatre Impresario John Holingshead wrote that the Manor House Tavern and G…

Started by Hugh

6 Jul 4, 2018
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Memories of 1860 Harringay, Stroud Green & Hornsey - recalled in 1910

London Evening News June 21 1910

Started by Hugh

5 Jun 30, 2018
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